Category: Performance

Adding greatest value as a leader with your team

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay As a leader, you and your team work IN your business each and every day; how often do you work ON your business? By that I mean, how often do you, and your team, reflect on and seek feedback on whether you are adding value to all of your… Read more »

Leadership purpose can enable your career – what’s yours?

Image by Joshua Woroniecki from Pixabay Do you have a good sense of your leadership purpose? If you are not sure what I mean and want to see your leadership career progress, there is a good reason to read on. According to Korn Ferry, leaders with a clear purpose not only reach more challenging roles… Read more »

Ensuring we step into our potential – lessons from snowboarding

Are you being intentional about giving yourself the best chance to grow in skills, competence and experience or are you holding yourself back? I’m not talking about the obvious ways we can grow like training courses but how we approach our work day to day. I’ve been reflecting on how our ability to stretch ourselves… Read more »

When did you last say “No” at work?

Image by Andrew Martin Following on from my January post, I’ve been reflecting on the positive power of the simple word “No”. Recently, some of the managers and leaders that I have been coaching have been wrestling with finding (or making) time to do the ‘right’ things, in part because they have taken on work… Read more »

Listen in – Making Hybrid Work (as a manager)

This is the final blog in a series relating to supporting managers in setting up their hybrid team for success. This month I’m sharing to ways to listen to, and view, some key tips for managers related to the model above.

How to nurture connection as a hybrid team manager

Photo Credit: SolStock Stock Image and Video Portfolio – iStock (istockphoto.com) Continuing a series of blogs that aim to support managers of hybrid teams in ensuring their teams are connected, engaged, cohesive and able to perform, this month we focus on connection. Rather than being nice to have, connection is an essential of the hybrid… Read more »

Your manager mindset for effective team hybrid working

Over the last few months, Geri McKenna and I have shared a number of blogs related to ensuring your team is working effectively in a hybrid way. This month, we are focusing on considering your mindset as a manager and will share some thoughts on what mindset will best serve you as a hybrid team… Read more »

Four steps to decide your hybrid working approach

In our last 2 month’s blogs, Geri McKenna and I have made the case for intentionally designing the way that your hybrid team works (May 2022) as well as sharing what you told us about your experiences (June 2022). In this blog, building on our learning from coaching teams and the latest research, we are… Read more »

Leading your hybrid team – what you told us

Since last month’s blog, the first of a series on leading a hybrid team successfully, we’ve run a survey on LinkedIn to better understand real life experiences of hybrid working currently. In this month’s blog we’ll share the highlights along with some considerations to support you in leading your hybrid team.

Successfully leading your hybrid team

In the past 2 years we’ve experienced the biggest disruption to work since the introduction of the 5 day working week – our work-life boundaries have been forever blurred and for many we experienced a new found autonomy.  Our behavioural norms have been turned on their heads and we can’t just go back. As a… Read more »